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Ideas for 'From an Ontological Point of View', 'Science and Hypothesis' and 'What is a Law of Nature?'

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation
17691 Nothing is genuinely related to itself [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
17679 All instances of some property are strictly identical [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
12677 Armstrong holds that all basic properties are categorical [Armstrong, by Ellis]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 9. Qualities
7007 I think of properties as simultaneously dispositional and qualitative [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 10. Properties as Predicates
7015 A predicate applies truly if it picks out a real property of objects [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
7042 A theory of universals says similarity is identity of parts; for modes, similarity is primitive [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
7023 Powers or dispositions are usually seen as caused by lower-level qualities [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / a. Dispositions
7025 Are a property's dispositions built in, or contingently added? [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
17687 If everything is powers there is a vicious regress, as powers are defined by more powers [Armstrong]
17666 Actualism means that ontology cannot contain what is merely physically possible [Armstrong]
17667 Dispositions exist, but their truth-makers are actual or categorical properties [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals
17678 Universals are just the repeatable features of a world [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
17669 Realist regularity theories of laws need universals, to pick out the same phenomena [Armstrong]
7034 Universals explain one-over-many relations, and similar qualities, and similar behaviour [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 3. Instantiated Universals
17677 Past, present and future must be equally real if universals are instantiated [Armstrong]
15442 Universals are abstractions from their particular instances [Armstrong, by Lewis]
17686 Universals are abstractions from states of affairs [Armstrong]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
7039 How could you tell if the universals were missing from a world of instances? [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
7009 Similarity among modes will explain everthing universals were for [Heil]
7041 Similar objects have similar properties; properties are directly similar [Heil]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism
7032 Objects join sets because of properties; the property is not bestowed by set membership [Heil]